Foreign Affairs 3 Flashcards
Between 1997 and 2007 what did Britain want to use their position in the world to do
Build a diplomatic bridge between Europe and America, this only had partial success and relations between Britain, the USA and Europe were strained by the Cold War and the balkans.
What were the key event in the EU between 1997 and 2007
1997- treaty of Amsterdam - amendment and consolidation of existing treaties
1999- launch of the euro
2001- treaty of nice (to cope with expansion)
2004- establishment of a constitution
2007- enlargement of the EU to 27 states
2007- treaty of Lisbon ( increase efficiency and democracy)
What had Blair called for (regarding Britain)
To develop a new, more positive relationship with its European partners.
How was blairs rel with Europe
How was brown with Europe
He had a high personal standing and good rel with other European leaders. Blair was also enthusiastic about the possibility of Britain joining the European currency the euro.
Brown was less keen on joining the Euro
What issues did Blair take the lead with in European initiatives
Climate change, world trade, making poverty history.
Who sent membership requests to the EU in 2007
Turkey, Croatia, Serbia and the Ukraine. Started to be question how much Britain would be at the heart of Europe knowing that states of the ussr were bound to play a prominent role.
What did the Lisbon realty arouse
Controversy and there was no certainly that at 27 states would ratify the treaty.
How did new labour continue the special rel
Keen on maintaining it.
Number of similarities between Clinton and blairs governments, both influenced by the ideas of the third wave.
Blair thought it was essential to keep America involved in European affairs after they had to deal with the Yugoslavian crisis. To do this they would make full use of NATO.
Bush and Blair then developed a close rel especially with regard to meeting th entreat on go along terrorism.
What were some key military interventions between 1999-2007
1999- NATO bombing of the Yugoslavia led by British forced
2000- invasion on Sierra Leone to revolve civil war
2001- invasion of Iraq and overthrow of taliban
2003- invasion of Iraq by American led coalition
2007- withdrawal from Iraq by brown
What did Blair firmly believe in
Liberal interventionism ( a country should intervene in another country for liberal aims ) to prevent to recurrence of massacres and ethnic cleansing that had been seen in the Yugoslavian civil war.
Give 4 examples of Blair showing liberal interventionism
Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone
9/11
Afghanistan
Iraq
Why did Blair get involved in the Yugoslavia civil war
In 1999 a prolonged NATO bombing campaign against Serbia forced milosevic into pulling his forced out of Kosovo.
In 2000 when rebel forces in the civil war in Sierra Leone threatened to take over the capital city Freetown the British government sent armed forces.
What happened as a result of 9/11
NATO forces prepared to invade Afghanistan where the Taliban government had allowed al Qaeda to use the county as a base for training and planning terrorist operations.
7th October 2001 Britain joined the USA in a military campaign to over throw the Taliban and expel al Qaeda from Afghanistan.
The leaders of the Taliban managed to escape.
What was the fear with Iraq in 2002
That they might link up with Al Qaeda and provide a new basis for terrorism.
Invasion of Iraq was launched. Y American forces and backed by Britain, Poland and Italy amongst others.
Military victory was achieved in 2003. But British troops found themselves bogged down in a long struggle.
Why had Britain’s involvement in Iraq been controversial
4 ministers resigned
Stop the war march
Failure to find evidence of WMD which started the war
British government accused of exaggerating the threat
War was dragged in
British soldiers were accused of mistreating Iraqi prisoners
